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Double bluff in today's New Zealand Herald:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

The "April Fools' Day special" promised a new BMW to the first person who took their car and the front-page coupon to the dealership.

Ms Marsh was first at the Newmarket car dealership this morning, arriving in her 15-year-old Nissan Avenir.

She was swiftly rewarded with a new BMW 1 Series worth almost $50,000 in exchange for the old station wagon.



That is a perfect April Fools' day joke.


The image of the newspaper front page in this article is completely unreadable (specifically the BMW coupon): is a legible version available somewhere?


How is that April Fools? The offer was serious and they honored it. It's not like e.g. offering all of YouTube on DVDs.


It was literally titled the April Fools Day Special and on a day where the pranks vary from annoying programs that mess with my keyboard input to annoying news articles that mess with my sanity. I wouldn't have driven down to that dealership it they were giving away junkers or Bugatti Veyrons not to mention a BMW.


The joke is on all the people who thought it wasn't serious.


That's fantastic!




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